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When Being Attractive Gets Risky - How Does Your Attack Surface Look to an Attacker?
In the era of digitization and ever-changing business needs, the production environment has become a living organism. Multiple functions and teams within an organization can ultimately impact the way an attacker sees the organization's assets, or in other words, the external attack surface. This...
Top 3 Non-Technical Cybersecurity Trends for 2023
A strong cybersecurity strategy isn’t just about choosing the right tools. Cybersecurity experts Greg Young and William Malik discuss three non-technical cybersecurity trends for 2023 to help security leaders reduce cyber risk across the enterprise attack surface...
How a Unified Security Platform Protects the Cloud
Massive growth in cloud use has increased the enterprise attack surface. Addressing the risks with specialized point solutions is unwieldy, complex and can leave vulnerability gaps—driving many companies to seek a unified cyber security platform...
A Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Guide for Leaders
Discover the benefits of SASE in adopting modern security architectures to reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...
The Company You Keep – Preparing for supply chain attacks with Talos IR
Given the increasing frequency of supply chain attacks, the sophistication of those attacks, and the expansion of the attack surface beyond an organizations direct control, incident preparedness and response activities must be considered in the overall supply chain risk mitigation strategy. Suppl...
Attack Surface Management 2022 Midyear Review Part 3
In our 2022 midyear roundup, we examine the most significant trends and incidents that influenced the cybersecurity landscape in the first half of the year...
Attack Surface Management 2022 Midyear Review Part 2
In our 2022 midyear roundup, we examine the most significant trends and incidents that influenced the cybersecurity landscape in the first half of the year...
CISA BOD 23-01: Meeting and Exceeding CISA Requirements with Qualys
The latest Binding Operational Directive from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA BOD 23-01 requires agencies to implement an essential cybersecurity practice within the next 6 months. While this new mandate impacts agencies directly, it also impacts their supply chain...
Addressing the Evolving Attack Surface Part 1: Modern Challenges
Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot from our customers requesting help on how to manage their evolving attack surface. As new 0days appear, new applications are spun up, and cloud instances change hourly, it can be hard for our customers to get a full view of risk into their environments. We put...
Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Print Spooler is a print background processing service that manages all local and network print queues and controls all print jobs.An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows Print Spooler, which stems from improper privilege assignment in the application and can be...
Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Security - SASE Part 3
Explore why secure web gateway SWG is important to effectively secure cloud resources and reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...
Detecting and preventing LSASS credential dumping attacks
Obtaining user operating system OS credentials from a targeted device is among threat actors’ primary goals when launching attacks because these credentials serve as a gateway to various objectives they can achieve in their target organization’s environment, such as lateral movement. One techniqu...
Common Cloud-Native Security Misconfigurations & Fixes
Cloud configuration errors are a major concern for modern DevOps teams, introducing a new attack surface with numerous potential points of vulnerability. Read on to discover some of the most common errors and learn how to resolve them...
One Year After IntSights Acquisition, Threat Intel’s Value Is Clear
Rapid7 Strengthens Market Position With 360-Degree XDR and Best-in-Class Threat Intelligence Offerings Time flies… and provides opportunities to establish proof points. After recently passing the one-year milestone of Rapid7’s acquisition of IntSights, the added value threat intelligence brings t...
Control System Defense: Know the Opponent
Summary Traditional approaches to securing OT/ICS do not adequately address current threats. Operational technology/industrial control system OT/ICS assets that operate, control, and monitor day-to-day critical infrastructure and industrial processes continue to be an attractive target for...
Limiting the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface
Limiting the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface By Trellix · September 21, 2022 This blog was written by Douglas McKee We often discuss how the intentions of an action matter, and it's clear to see why they do. If I am walking down the sidewalk, distracted by my phone of course and run into a...
Why Organizations Struggle with Patch Management (and What to Do about It)
The cybersecurity attack surface continues to grow exponentially. Modern technologies are being deployed on-premises and in the cloud as part of digital transformation journeys. Meanwhile, the current practice of identifying, classifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities has become...
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: 3 Actionable Tips
Make Cybersecurity Awareness Month a year-long initiative with these three actionable security tips to reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...
External attack surface and ongoing cybercriminal activity in APAC region
To prevent a cyberattack, it is vital to know what the attack surface for your organization is. To be prepared to repel the attacks of cybercriminals, businesses around the world collect threat intelligence themselves or subscribe for threat intelligence services. Continuous threat research enabl...